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The money follows the house
The county has completed the transfer of Mr. Brown's restricted fund to the Friends of the Latimer House. The first $500,000 was released at the end of August, the final balance of $88,975.37 was paid by ACH on September 10, and the funds were in the organization's account on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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Friends of the Latimer House ready to start preservation work
Main Street Media on the transfer of the Latimer House and the first work ahead, with Jim Latimer on the years the house waited and the one request Mr. Brown made.
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The deed is recorded
The house and its parcel passed to the Friends of the Latimer House on August 27, 2026, recorded in Book 6928. Ten years after the codicil, the house has an owner whose only job is to look after it.
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The School Board votes
The Sumner County Board of Education voted ten to one to approve the quitclaim deed, the last approval the conveyance needed. The Board asked for one week to settle the survey and the access to the parcel, and that is a week worth taking.
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One Patriot’s story: the tale of Jonathan Latimer
Jim Latimer, writing for Main Street Media, on the Colonel whose family settled on Station Camp Creek, from Lake George and Saratoga to the burning of New London and the Tennessee frontier.
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The family comes home
Descendants of Colonel Jonathan Latimer gathered in Sumner County on September 26 and 27, 2025. They heard from county commissioners, toured local cemeteries, looked over family treasures, and walked through the log house. For many of them, it was the first time inside.
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A budget, at last
A committee of neighbors, a descendant, two specialists and four commissioners spent the spring building a plan. In June 2025 they handed in a scope, a line item budget, a timeline, a site plan, a floor plan and a drawing of the finished house.
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The brick starts coming off
The veneer began coming away and the hand hewn logs came out from under it for the first time since the mid 1900's. Photographs from both days are on the restoration page.
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The bequest comes back
The five hundred thousand dollars was separated back out of the education technology trust and returned to the county, where it had been meant to go since 2016.
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